JOB SUMMARY

As part of the CIB Transaction Banking Legal Team, to provide legal support to the Key Business Stakeholders (see Job Responsibilities) with a particular focus on digital channels and digital platforms.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

•    Provide legal support for key stakeholders within or supporting Transaction Banking including Cash Product, Trade Product, Digital Channels Solutions (“DCS”), Digital Channels, Data and Client Coverage Platforms (“DDCP”), and Strategic Partnerships (“Key Business Stakeholders”) globally. 

•    Develop and/or update global template agreements, ensuring they are fit for purpose, balanced, promote standardisation, simplification and meet minimum bank standards including relevant policies. Drive projects and global initiatives to update, streamline and simplify legal documentation and approval frameworks.

•    Review, advise, structure and approve new (and variations of) products, services and digital solutions. Assist Key Business Stakeholders in identifying and mitigating legal liability and other risks related to new product, service and digital solution launches globally. 

•    Assist Key Business Stakeholders in identifying and mitigating legal liability and other risks related to product, service and digital solution exits in the relevant Region/ Country. 

•    Provide effective second line oversight and challenge to risk-taking business activities of Key Business Stakeholders. Working with the Key Business Stakeholders and other risk framework owners, ensure that key risks to the Bank are approved in line with the relevant policy frameworks.

•    Assist the Key Business Stakeholders in driving efficiency and execution excellence with timely, prioritized and streamlined legal advisory and transactional support to support business and client acquisition and retention. This includes providing legal support to Key Business Stakeholders in client onboarding for their products, services and digital solutions globally. This includes (i) client negotiations; (ii) advice on deviations to the Bank’s global template agreements in standard onboarding scenarios; and (iii) advice on complex, bespoke client arrangements involving bespoke contracts.

•    Provide legal support to Key Business Stakeholders by advising on, structuring, drafting and negotiating contracts on multi-jurisdiction service and partnership arrangements with third parties to support our products, services and digital solutions globally.

•    Provide legal support for key digitisation, workflow, process and documentation simplification initiatives to support the Key Business Stakeholders in client and business acquisition and retention.

•    Provide legal support for the Key Business Stakeholders in developing technical capabilities for the future (for example, in AI, Data Science and Quantum Computing), including advising on contractual arrangements with third party collaborators and grant agencies. 

•    Provide product and digital solutions advisory legal support to Regional/ Country Legal when they are supporting Key Business Stakeholders in (1) negotiating client or third party contracts in their respective Region/ Country; (2) advising on extension of new product, service or digital solutions launches into their respective Region/ Country; and (3) advising on product, service or digital solutions exits in their respective Region/ Country.

•    Work with Regional/ Country Legal and other stakeholders (eg. Compliance) to monitor the external environment (such as changes in law and regulations, shifting industry or market practices and litigation affecting competitors or market participants) affecting the Key Business Stakeholders and incorporate such insights into overall legal advisory support for the Key Business Stakeholders.

•    Represent Legal at various risk and governance, performance and workstream review forums of the Key Business Stakeholders.

•    Deliver training to the Key Business Stakeholders, Regional/ Country Legal and other stakeholders. 

Key Stakeholders

Internal
•    Cash Product
•    Trade Product
•    Digital Channels Solution
•    Digital Channels, Data and Client Coverage Platforms
•    Strategic Partnerships
•    Second line risk owners (including Legal, CFCR, Operational Risk etc)

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years PQE (Post Qualified Experience) in law 
• Experience in corporate/commercial and technology contracts is preferred.
• Strong analysis and logical reasoning expertise
• Ability to improvise and tailor legal solutions to complex and constantly evolving business contexts.
• Strong understanding of fundamental concepts of contract law

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Qualified Lawyer in a common law jurisdiction 
• Legal Advisory & Documentation

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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